Open Letter to Philadelphia Radio Talk Show Host Michael Smerconish about Terry Schiavo

Me | 2/24/2005 | Me

[Ohioan from Florida]

Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!

[MarMema]

Good Job!!! Thanks for your letter.

[MarMema]

Why is it nonsensical to show somebody how evil a position they hold is?

It is not. A picture really is worth a thousand words, and video is even better.

The death-culture-worshippers know this and that is why in this case and many previous forced-dehydration cases, video of the person they were attempting to have killed was suppressed.

[Saundra Duffy]

I hope he doesn't use your letter for toilet paper. But at least you got your thoughts posted here for thousands of people to read. Thanks for doing it.

[TAdams8591]

Michael is the guy who has bragged about his friendship with Arlen Spector ad nauseum and had him as a guest on his program many times. Spector took a group of people to Cuba. Michael was one of them. When Michael returned, he bragged about having smoked a cigar with Fidel Castro, oblivious to the sensibilities of conservatives in his listening audience which is a mistake (either doing it or bragging about it) no TRUE conservative would ever make.

There are a host of other issues large and small, for which conservatives could take him to task.

Most recently Smerkonish supported Lynne Abraham and the ridiculous charges she filed against the protestors from REPENT AMERICA.

And now this. He sides with Michael Schiavo and the court without knowing and understanding the facts of the case.

Smerconish is another intellectual LIGHTWEIGHT who doesn't belong where he is. Michael Smerkonish is solely about promoting Michael Smerkonish and nothing more.

Your letter is excellent. Far better than anything Michael has ever written. Thank you for taking the time to write it and for defending Terri to a SMALL TIME KNOW NOTHING talk show host who I stopped listening to long ago.

[TAdams8591]

He picked a HOT topic that he thought would sell. He wrote it for the proceeds, but also hoping it would help break him into National Syndication, the Major leagues in talk radio. He is totally DISGUSTING.

[TAdams8591]

"My wife and I had been getting so annoyed by him as of late, but Michael Smerconish shows us it could be a lot worse. I could go on and on about Sean Hannity. "

I've said the same thing. Michael and Sean have some similar traits, but Michael is far more Liberal and in every way far worse. Sean (I disagree with you I think Sean is conservative) at least seems to be sincere about caring for people.

[Lauren BaRecall]

When did Rush Limbaugh ever mention Terri? I stopped listening to him because he never mentioned her. He was too involved with his own case. I may be wrong, but I had gotten the definite impression that Rush didn't want to antagonize the ACLU, which has taken his part, AND defends Michael Schiavo.

Rush seemed very surprised that the ACLU would side with him, because he's a conservative, and has continually criticized them, after all. But I knew that the real issue is this so-called "right to privacy." That's what Limbaugh's case and Terri's have in common.

The anti-Christian ACLU would defend Jesus Christ before Pontius Pilate, if the case had anything to do with the "right to privacy."

[Lauren BaRecall]

I don't think that Sean is a conservative. He supported Schwartzenegger over McClintock, the true conservative.

He sounds very supportive of Rudy Giuliani for any office (especially against Hillary), even though Rudy is not only pro abortion, he's also pro partial birth abortion.

I stopped listening to Sean, too.

[TorahTrueJew]

I think lots of Radio Talk Show hosts don't understand that most conservatives are not "go-team" republicans. We are all varied and different, and the one thing that brings us together is values and morality. I cannot support Giuliani as, no matter what good he may do, he is pro-abortion. I cannot support Condi Rice for the same reason. Or Arnold Schwarzenneger. Or Arlen Specter. Sean always says things like, "Well, we disagree on a lot of things, but I like so-and-so and think he/she would be great in office". Smerconish, well, he doesn't even say he disagrees with lots of these RINOs.

The best talk show host, IMHO, is Glenn Beck. "My show is not about right and left, it's about right and wrong" His show makes me laugh, and he discusses not only politics but serious social and moral issues of society. And he has spent HOURS discussing the Terry Schiavo case, and made the argument nationally that the precedent could be like Germany in the 30s.

[tutstar]

Very good!

[tutstar]

I wonder if he thinks the court was right in dropping charges against the Philly Christians. He certainly thought the court was right when they were facing charges.

The guy definitely isn't conservative if he's so pro death. He has no clue!

[SkyPilot]

I wonder if he thinks the court was right in dropping charges against the Philly Christians.

I don't know, since I never heard him discuss the charges being dropped. Smerconish certainly did side with the "Pink Angels", the District Attorney, and the Philly Police regarding the arrest and prosecution of the Christians. He was very, very hostile to Christians and their lawyer when they were on his radio program. When they tried to tell their side of the story, he accused them of "spinning the truth."

Smerconish also took calls from homosexuals on the program, who tried to paint the Philadelphia 5 Christians with hate groups and terrorists. Smerconish let them talk all they wanted.

Then Smerconish wrote an article in the Philadelphia Daily News attacking the Christian group--saying basically that they got what they deserved.

When callers where upset and outraged with Smerconish's approach to this issue, he got very testy on the air, and claimed "Listen pal, I worship the same God that you do!"

Lately, there have been a number of editorials on the net critical of Smerconish's behavior. He also admitted he is good friends with the DA, prosecutors, and Judge in the Philadelphia 5 case who wanted the Christians punished for appearing at the "Outfest!" demonstration.

[Williams]

Nice try but I did NOT take Smerconish's side in any way shape or form by calling the shotgun line immature. Please try not to fall into Torah's extreme argument tactics. Smerconish is generally annoying, sometimes right on, but he falls into the category of an activist moderate who blows with the winds.

[FR_addict]

Excellent Letter!

[tutstar]

Well he definitely doesn't have a clue! For the most part (IMO) conservatives usually support Biblical values and morals. Killing someone by starving them to death isn't either of those.

[FR_addict]

"When did Rush Limbaugh ever mention Terri?"

I was wondering that too. I haven't heard Rush mention her, but then, I don't listen to his show all that much. Have people been calling in on Open Line Friday to discuss Terri?

[T'wit]

>> Terry Schiavo's husband loved her and had her best interests in mind

This would be the same husband who took his wife's wedding and engagement rings off her finger and had them made into new jewelry for himself.

A real lover, this guy. Jodi, you're next.

[bvw]

"Extreme"? There's few extremes moreso than murder. Smerconsish dilly-dallies about murder, about violence. He hung out too much and too little with Rizzo. Had he grown up with Rizzo he would have learned better how to balance violence and authority. But he was just a debutante on spring break.

[TorahTrueJew]

Moderates are as bad as liberals IMHO.

Calling oneself a moderate means that you think that when two people argue, neither side is ever completely correct and that the truth must always lie in the middle. This is the Ten Commandments and divine law to a Moderate. Nobody is ever entirely correct or entirely wrong, the truth is in the middle.

You know how democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding on what to have for dinner?

To understand moderates, imagine to people arguing. One argues that we should walk into a room of 100 innocent people and kill everybody. The other says that killing is wrong, and we should let them all live.

The moderate says we should kill 50 people, so satisfy both wishes.

Let's just say that G-d is not a moderate... There is truth and there is falsehood, and nothing in between.